If there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYRight or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan grows used to everything, the scoundrel.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTaking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYWhen reason fails, the devil helps!
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYTo love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBeauty will save the world.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYBut how could you live and have no story to tell?
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIf you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYI did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYAbove all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY